Catawba Cultural Preservation Project (South Carolina). Program title: Catawba Lifestyle and Gardening Project. Goals are to increase awareness and use of traditional foods and food practices by supporting individual and community gardens and increasing fruits, vegetables, beans and herbs by providing access to gardens and a tribal farm market. The tribe is adopting policies of preferred ecological methods for gardens using traditional growing methods to encourage a new generation of environmental stewards to care for the reservation ecosystem. The tribe is promoting physical activity with gardening, fishing and canoeing.

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